It’s All About the Oil
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On episode 113 of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers try out a new rapid fire format. We heard y’all want us to get to more topics, well, here we go:
For Your Situational Awareness
Pastor Jamal Bryant catches heat for his wife’s dress? MAGA-coded CBS news anchor Tony Dokoupil bombs on his first day. Incumbent Tim Walz Drops Out of the Minnesota governor race. Trump accidentally gives Democrats their best ad for the midterms. War in Venezuela? What’s it really about?
What the heck is happening with Venezuela?? Trump has declared that the United States is going to control the country. Whose interests does this supposed occupation serve, how did we reach this point, and where could we be headed? Random as they may seem, there is a throughline through all the global conflicts the US gets involved in…
Is it AI-generated? Our hosts play a game to see if they can detect which video is AI. AI content and devices in general had our families in a chokehold this holiday season, especially our elders. How about you? Let us know in the comments!
Read more about Venezuela:
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/venezuelan-immigrants-tps-maduro-deportations
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/03/senate-war-powers-maduro-ouster-00709715
Read more about Tim Walz dropping out:
https://www.startribune.com/tim-walz-announcement-governor-mn/601557990
Read more about Trump’s midterm speech:
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Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lambot is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:13.1 | Welcome home, y'all. |
| 0:14.2 | This is episode 113 of Native Land Pod, where we give you our breakdown of all things, politics, and culture. |
| 0:20.7 | We are your host, Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bacari Sellers. Y'all, we hope you had an amazing holiday season with your family. Happy New Year. Yes. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. How long do y'all say Happy New Year? Okay. I usually go at least till King Day. Because then it switches holidays and I'm like happy King Day. So, you know. Okay, okay, okay. Are your trees down? About two weeks. About two weeks for me too. Are your trees down? Took them all down. All the lights, everything, everything down. We just took all down last week. Mine stays up all year. So we'll see if I get it down this year. But if you're like us, everybody, you're back at work. |
| 0:58.8 | And I'm curious if AI videos had your family and friends in a chokehold over the break, |
| 1:03.6 | mine certainly did. |
| 1:04.5 | We will discuss that and so much more on this show. |
| 1:07.5 | The Trump administration's unlawful capture, a Venezuelan leader, Nicholas |
| 1:11.7 | Maduro, Donald Trump's clumsy appearance at a Republican retreat at the Kennedy Center, |
| 1:16.7 | and on the fifth anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. What happened on this anchor's |
| 1:21.7 | debut on CBS World News? Tim Walls deciding not to run for a third term as Minnesota governor, and why are folks |
| 1:29.1 | still talking about Reverend Dr. Carrie Bryant's dress? And from the pulpit bishop, okay, |
| 1:35.4 | we have heard you loud and clear about giving our takes on more topics and maybe a little more |
| 1:40.0 | quickly. So going forward, our shows will begin with highlights, low lights or just plain |
| 1:44.1 | fact lights. We will call this segment for your situational awareness, FYSA, because these days |
| 1:49.7 | keeping your head on a constant swivel is an act of self-care. Let's get it. |
| 1:57.4 | FYSA, what's really going on in the world? Well, let's start with the church because I'm really confused about why a bishop, and in my |
| 2:03.4 | denomination, had this to say about the right Reverend Dr. Kerry Turner Bryant's dress. |
| 2:10.8 | A preacher presented his wife the other day, and I guess you call that a flesh-colored dress. I don't know. I don't know. It's black |
| 2:24.7 | dress and flesh color. It gives the illusion that she's not wearing anything underneath. |
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